Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:20:35 +0000 From: Leigh Porter <leigh@wisper.net> To: Stuart Wogsland <stuart@tcccom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I run INN faster? Message-ID: <34D219F3.86570C0B@wisper.net> References: <01bd2da1$98a02aa0$0330e3cf@stuart.tcccom.net>
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Stuart Wogsland wrote: > I was introduced to Freebsd and Unix administration 9 months ago. I have > learned a lot, but I need some help from this group. I need to run news a > lot quicker on our system. I have a couple of fullfeeds and my system seems > to refuse a high number of articles. I've been reading the mailing list and > some people recommend I change the priority of innd. We have taken the > advice on stripping the drives, but I still don't get the performance I'm > looking for. Could someone please tell me what the process would be to > change the priority of a process? I've been reading about renice, tried it, > but still doesn't give me the result I'm looking for. Any other tips to > make my news servers that we receive the fullfeeds faster would be greatly > appreciated. The best way to speed up a news server running INN is to delete it and install something else - I don't like INN that much though. If you feed only, try running Diablo for a massive perofrmance increase otherwise there are some commercial packages avaliable that are also a lot faster than INN. There may of course be something else up that may be improved, I am surprised that striping the drives did not help - unless your striping multiple partitions on the same drive :) Obviously throwing more memory/cpu at it (What do you currently have?) would help - but it's nice to get more speed for less cycles! -- Leigh Porter
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